Word: bolivians
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week Bolivian authorities put Paka-Jake in jail, began to produce evidence that, in at least 28 cases, his divine prophecies were nothing but ungodly murders...
Said Galarza: "If the men have gone back, they have been starved back. I got down and talked with those Bolivian laborers. Most of them could neither read nor write. . . . But most of them talked warmly of President Roosevelt and Vice President Wallace. They knew what we were fighting for. ... I resolved that something must be done to help them...
Because of one thing Galarza chose to do, he got a letter from Under Secretary of State Sumner Welles. The letter castigated Galarza for spreading charges that U.S. Ambassador Pierre de Lagarde Boal had intervened with the Bolivian Government against the strikers. Galarza answered: if an impartial jury could prove his charges erroneous, he would make a "complete retraction." His resignation from the Pan American Union was the one thing left for him to do, and none knew better than Ernesto Galarza that it probably was not enough. Many a knotty problem of Latin-American economy must be solved, many...
...except (as the Bolivian Government revealed this week) 19 killed, 30 wounded...
...economics experts last September presented-and had approved by the Bolivian Congress-a draft of socio-economic proposals intended to raise living standards for Bolivians. The hopes that it provoked among the Indians added fuel to the flames of their dissatisfaction. Nazi agents, working on susceptible labor leaders, added their touch to the unrest. At the same time the Nazis urged the Government to take a firm attitude...